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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1938.
HE HAS HANDLED 16,000 DIVORCES
And Stayed Married For Thirty Years
Clacton-on-sea.
Mr. Adrian Hussard-Short, who in the last ten years as secretary of the London Committee on Poof Persons Procedure has handled 16,000 divorce cases, recently celebrated his thirtieth anniversary of happily married life.
Mr. Hassard-Short is fifty- eight, his wife fifty-six. They met in the Law Courtz.
They always spend their hol- daya together, and Mr. Hassard- Short rarely goes to dinners to which his wife is not invited.
Every Saturday they go to- gether to a Brixton music-hall.j Two neats are permanently booked. for them.
Mro. Hansard-Short, knitting con- tentedly in the hotel where they are staying on holiday, said: "Some of these people can't understand what they're taking on when they get married. They never learn to give and take."
Sometimes Mrs.
Hassard-Short
Foes with her husband to his oflcel
in the Royal Courts of Justire. Often)
at their home in Queen's-road, Bays- water, W., she talks over nis enses with him.
Mr. Hassard-Short regards his job
of helping people with round about
£2 a week to obtain divorces, as hinj "Ble work."
"DESERTIONS"
Applications this year total 5,500 against under 3,000 for the whole of last year.
He says: "It's the desertion clause (in the A. P. Herbert DI- į vorce Act) which has sent the
gures up.
"Since I began doing this work in; 1914 I've denit with 85.000 appllen- tions. In the hut ten years throug
ne 10,800 poor person i live obtained i divorce.
DIVING BOY ELECTROCUTED
A live wire. hidden in the wall. caused Thomas Higgins, aged 13, of Palmer-atreet, Sale, Cheshire, to dle from electrocu- tion when about to take a dive from a diving board at the local baths.
The board was out of use, and had been pushed back, touching the wire.
I was stated at the inquest recently that it the boy had not been wet and standing on a wet surface he would not have re- crived the shock.
The superintendent said that ho had been 15 years at the baths and that was the Orst he knew of the wire.
Verdict: Accidental Death.
Under a Hifler Inw, every physically fit German lad of 18, regardless of rank or wealth, must spend six months in a labour camp at pittance wages, without ad from home. Above are some of the Jadn, carrying spades, in a mass demonstration at the recent Nuremburg congress. The affair was called the "masa glint," with the sun shining on shovels and bare shoulders.
BLOODHOUNDS HUNT 2
FUGITIVES
Climbed from Gaol
by
Bent Pipe
LEWES.
Bloodhounds were used recently in a search for two
Cocktail Ban For
Hockey Girls
The Australian women's hoc- key team to lour England next year will be allowed to smoke two cigarettes a day and wear play-sults on board ship: bul they will not be permitted to drink cocktalls.
own men who made their second "break" from Lewes Prison
within five weeks.
"I've often given good advice to the in-laws when they come along with the applicants. Yes, the good ukt music-hall mother-in-law is still are: the worst offender."
The men, who got away from a working party in the grounds,
George William Harris.
Mira. Howard-Short interrupted., height 5ft. Gin.. fresh complexion, ' "It's the mothers of the husbands, dark brown hair, blue eyes, propop- They don't like to see their sons; tionale bu.id, oval face; and
taken away, as they call it. They for-
get they took some
away themselves.
"And then lock
Archie Lewis Walnwright, age 25.1 mother's,son 5ft. Tin., fresh complexion, fair hair,
grey eyes, proportionate build, lou
at the husbanļi face.
who plays got all the time."
The din covery wa male about six "And the wife who must be going, clock by a warder who found a out every evening," added Mr. Has length of metal pipe, hent at one endi sard-Short.
¦ bunked over the outer will of the
his
person.
After sealing the pipe the
The things Mr. Hazard Shoet and men would have to drop 19 feet to
wife consider the threat' the ground.
uk sources
diver a jealong. selfishness, and ledgers.
BRITAIN'S NEW CRUISERS
Heavy Armament Of 8,000-ton Vessels
DOWNS SEARCH
Players have to pay their
expenses-about £200 though each will receive £10 from the Australian Council. States may also raise funds for their representatives.
MR. GOOD FINDS MAKING £250,000
'DULL'
Alan Paul Good, thirty-three-year-
old "company doctor"-about whom City men say "He'll make a million' Warders and pulire marched the-talked recently of how his personal Down nearby. Following one report forline, estimated at £250.000, has a detachment was sent to an empty grown from the "£2.000 and a good hette a mile away on the bilis. Other education" with which he left Oxfort wandert arched disused stables, twelve years ago. and a mill adjoining the prison
Poller went to Falmer, near Brighton, where the men were reported to have been seen,
A warder's wife and that during
His latest deal has put £350,000:
Incited Soldier to
Steal Arms
Doctor Sued For Water In Medicine
and
Hull
A
poser unique in trgal medical history was put to County Court Judge recently. It was | Chias--a
Should a doctor pay trade rate or domestic supply rate for the water he uses to dilute bottles of medicine?
It was argued that a doctor was, In effect, reselling the water. Judg ment was reserved,
Hull Corporation had brought an action against Dr. Duncan Ferguson Yuille, of Beverley High-rond, Hull, to recaver 16s, 6d, for water used in his professional practice.
Mr. J. Boyle, for Hull Corporation. sald that Its Water Act laid it down that the supply of water for domes tic purposes should not include the supply for any trade or business,
suld that nobody would claim that Judge Sir R. Mitchell Danks, K.C.. a doctor in washing his hands or in- struments, was using water for other than domestic purposes.
The dificulty in this case was that the doctor was also using the water to dilute medicines which he sold. The water, in fact, was sold.
Mr. Norman Black, defending, said that anyone who sold tea or coffer was also selling water, but it had been held that this was n use in its nature domestic.
FALSE AIR RAID WARNING
'PHONE OPERATOR ON MISCHIEF CHARGE
"ALL MACHINERY
SET IN MOTION"
Alleged to have sent out fulse warning of the approach of enemy aircraft during the recent crisis, William Henry Wood, 20, of Leopold- road, Leeds, part-time telephonist at Leeds G.P.Ú., WAN charged ot Leeds recently with "enusing a public mischief." He WAS com- initied for trial. and was allowed bail.
According to Mr. D. W. Bradley, proscruting, Wood was supplied with beeret instructions formulated by the Home Office with regard to air raid and with detailed in- atutuctions
regarding warnings of the approach of enemy planes,
been arranged, said Mr. Bradley, that all such messages, when received, should be relis tributed to other centres throughout the West Riding.
Wood was also instructed in a secret rode and provided with a key to that coxie.
On Sept. 23 Wood was on duty at the.
main switchboard of Leeds G.P.O. for four hours from 7 v.m.
He wer
went off duty at II, and at 11.1 all was received by th operator who had rellevert him. The message was in the secret code.
Handing a copy to the magistrate,
Mary, into the aircraft industry, by Archibald Norman Longworth! POLICE CHIEFS SUMMONED
Announcement
21 now
into the packet of the shareholders That he would have been unable Mr. Bradley said that the messag of one of a companies, and brought to hold a sensible conversation owing, was the first general warning of the John Brown's, builders of the Queen
to drink was the d:frnce advanced approach of enemy alveraft. the afternoon the aw the two pri- pleased; tued with the months
The deal has fett him tired but aged 38, a lorry driver, of Trafford Entirely new details of, es making their way across the secret negotiations
of Park, Manchester, charged Britain's latest cruisers are Dawns.
which preceded | Knutsford Quarter Sessions recently published in the official monthly A bobte beating a prison number,pleased breat
[merger; | with incilement. the stares of letters, organ of the German Admiralty, stated to be that of Wainwright, was Ltd., latest of a series of business The ships concerned are nine picked up near the prison wall and firms to rally under his
"company units of the Fiji class, 8,000 tons,
doctoring." Jumped 10s, a share re- and ten of the Dido class, 5,450 tons, all of which are building or authorised.
The Fifi type represents a smoller version of the 9000 to 0,306-11 Southumpton class, capable of 33 Jurots, which are armed with 12 6in guns in triple turrets. According to the German authority the Fiji and Ther sisters are also to carry 12 Gin guns on triple mountings. Assuming this
handed to the authorities
Gaol last month were recaptured, one
Two men who escaped from Lewis cently. after being at liberty for three days.
and the other 12 days.
LAKE BOATMAN
ACQUITTED
FRIENDS HELPED
Their price is now about 15s, cach. In 1935, before the advent of Mr. Good, they stood at ds. 9.
Alan Good. Gft. Gins and sixteca stone, left Oxford University with no greater distinction than of rowed for his college.
having
from the depot of the Cheshire, by
The chairman. 1L-Col. J. D. Waters. sald: "Tad I thought
The message was immediately dis atributed over a great part of the
West Riding. It was sent
to the Leeds police headquarters, and the Lingworth pleaded not guilty to Constable and the head of the C.I.D. Chief Constable, the Assistant Chief "unlawfully inviting, between August 13 and 17, Joseph Garden Teke, a
brought down to headquarters. private soldier in the service of the an air raid was
All the machinery for dealing with King, to steal the goods of the King The fire brigade was told to stand put into motion.
for further Regiment at Chester Castle."
Instructions, and similar steps were taken at 80 posts He was found guilty and fissed throughout the West Riding. £20 5. Six weeks were allowed in
Albert Oswald hard labour in default. which to pay, with four months'
Garnett, night supervisor at Leeds G.P.O., said that after the mesange had been £;!- tributed efforts were made to trace the origin of the call and when it was found that it came from a public call box the police were notified, and steps were taken to cancel the mes- SOXC.
Mr. H. Lawton, defending prosecution, said that over
You learned a good deal as the result Mr. Ralph Sutton, K.C., for the of this hoax, did you not? Well, we Longworth had questioned Icke und before, although we had not had a drinks were fairly well versed in our duties Quigley, another soldier, about arms, test, and asked for a map of the castle,
CODE EXPLAINED TO HIM Longworth, who was formerly in in gun Vessels of this type
Mr. Lawton suggested that a man the R.A.S.C., said he had no have been much criticised on the Lynch added, "but never at any time get no more,' he said, in effect.
Con- In Wood's position in the Past Office "It has been a nightmare to me," me £2,000. If you lose that, you section with any foreign Government would have no score of their feeble armament, com- did I think the ease would end other-
Idea of the extent and was not "I fained a very old-established matters. pared with that of contemporary wise."
interested in Army of the trouble his code message wag toreign cruisers.
firm of solicitors, and started taking
to cause. kely District Justice H. L. Connor de-on interest in property.
He said
Mr. Garnett; I should say that he Icke, "As you are fed up HIGH RATE OF FIRE clared there had been undoubtedly police court work, except to defend with the Army, if you get me some would know very well. The mean- According to the German Journal, an error of judgment both in regard myself against summonses for speed-machine-guns i will sell them, and ing of the
Killarney.
He said: "Nothing very remarkable has come my way, except an extra- ordinary proportion of good fortune,
to be correct, they will rank among care for them as if they were my They have backed me with hard cash the most heavily-armed cruisers of their size in the world.
"I look after my passengers and luck, which includes having friends.
own children," sald Patrick Lynch, and benefited.
Of special interest are the detalls after he had been acquitted here for nothing, not even for hooligan 55-years-alt Killarney boatman. "At university I was distinguished of the Dido eluss, now released for recently on a charge of the man-behaviour. the first time. It had been surmised slaughter of five English tourists.
And since then things that these ships would he replicas of
have really been quite dull. BEGAN ON £2,000 "When I started my father gave
the Arethusa type, 5,270 tons, which HIR
bont overturned on Lake
has a speed of 324 knots, and carries Killarney on August 24, and five of
six
the 24 passengers were drowned.
I did no
you were the dupe of any sub- versive element, you would un- doubtedly, as an example amil deterrent to others, go to prison." "NOT INTERESTED"
explained,
- however, the Dido and her nine con-to the number of people carried in ing-driving fast cars fast is one of you will be able to get bought out carefulty code words had been
| eloquence was to increase the Inc.
with the money." sorts are to be armed with 5.2 guns, the boat and the strength of the my hobbles. The only result of my
Mr. in which case the number is certain
J. current.
F. Marman, defending: Why The first big deal was the pur-did you plan this scheme If you had. to exceed six.
Lynch was fined Sc. in each case chase for £810,000 of the Kensington no intenten of carrying it out?-11 Arst appeared in the giant submarino on charges of using an unlicensed Xisume 14 years ago, but they were pleasure boat, and for not having his Estate from Sir John Ellerman, the was only foolishnes
name painted on it. Charges alleg-multi-millionaire.
Guns of this calibre.
not mounted in any other vessel.
"Money as such does not interest While oficiat details are not avain overloading and falling to exer-
probably not dis- cis proper skill and care were dis-me. The thril I get is out of dis-
able, the new gun similar to the 5.118in model listed by Vickers Armstrongs.
This piece
welgha 4 tons Bewl and dischargea n
Call projectile, against the 1001b thell
of the Gin kun.
It is semi-automatic and hny & high
rate of fire.
mlased.
Ancient Perfume
Potent
Athens.
If the Dido is to mount a large The fragrance of flowers picked number of 5.2in guns she premisen tu more than 2,200 years ago was still
covering a good thing, discarded or hidden, picking it up and polishing 1, until it returns to its true value."
be a more formidable fighting unit retained in small jars of perfume has
Farmer Kills Giant Lion
Pletersburg, Transvaal. One of the largest lions on record been shot by Gerrie van der
than the Arethuan, Sho will deliver found in the tomb of a 2-year-old Merwe of Linten Farm it meared a much greater volume of fre in a girl, who was buried in the third more than 12 feet in length. given period.
century BC., at Sedes, Macedonia. given perled.
Cem Upholds Reno
Myth
Concrete evidence is
Police Sergt. Kirkbride, stationed at Wakefield, sold that when he re- distributed it at once to 10 different celved
the message from Leeds he divisional headquarters in the West Riding, and they in turn redistributed
to 60 other points.
Supt. James Craig. head of the Leeds C.I.D., said thai following in- quiries he went to Wood's house.
me
Wood sub
subsequently made a sinie- Reno, Nev.
he which sold: now available "It is no use going a long way to sustain the sometimes scoffer! at round about it. I know what you myth that Reno divorces throw their are
here
fur." wedding ringa into the Truckve
The
officer sald Woot then re- river. Sam Buzzar and H. A. Mel- pented the code message, and added, lors of Pennsylvania were gazing into rent it from Spencer-place call the river from the Centre street box. boots, waded in and came back with trial, Mr. Lawton Intimated that his! bridge when they spotted a blazing, and that's at."
I just thought I would send diamond. They obtained rubber When Wood was committed for
defince would be reserved.
u diamond set wedding ring.
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